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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... Dow and the S&P 500 rose for a seventh straight week, their longest winning streaks since late 2003. Shares of General Electric Co notched their biggest gain in three weeks on news that the conglomerate was close to selling its plastics unit for almost ...

US pension funds no longer the big boys

... years," the report said. For example, in 2000, 15 out of the top 20 funds were US-based including General Motors, General Electric, IBM, Lucent Technologies and Boeing. By 2005, only General Motors remains in the rankings but has since slipped from number ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
... edge and boosted crude oil prices by nearly 2 per cent. Shares in manufacturers, including Boeing Co, 3M Co and General Electric Co declined, along with retailers, banks and transport companies. Bernanke told Congress overnight that core inflation, excluding ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... bellwether companies, including chemical maker DuPont Co and diversified manufacturers Honeywell International Inc and General Electric Co led the declines, along with shares of home builders and banks. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 71.78 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... operations, gone bankrupt or sold their operations in the last year. The fifth largest sub-prime mortgage broker General Electric is to retrench about 20 per cent of its workforce in yet another indication of industry status. The sub-prime market which ...

Westpac appoints NZ chief

... chief executive officer, David Morgan. Meanwhile, 44 year old Brad Cooper has spent the last eight years with General Electric in senior leadership roles. He joined GE Australia in 1998 as director consumer finance Australia and a year later was promoted ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
... prices revived concerns about higher inflation and an investment bank's downgrades of bellwethers Boeing Co and General Electric Co tempered some expectations for growth. Both the Dow and the S&P 500 snapped a four-day winning streak, but the Nasdaq ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
... Shares of big energy-hungry industrial companies such as diversified manufacturers United Technologies Corp and General Electric Co were among the Dow's biggest gainers. GE was No. 1 among the S&P 500's advancers. The Dow Jones industrial average rose ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2006
... East pushed oil prices to a record high, and investors fled stocks to move money into safer assets. Manufacturer General Electric Co was the biggest pull on the Standard & Poor's 500 index after its quarterly outlook disappointed Wall Street. The Dow ...

GE Money to correct problematic sales practices

... Company are providers of insurance products to GE Personal Loans customers. The three companies fall under the General Electric Group umbrella.